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...larger national survey of psychiatric disorders among adults. In the first phase, researchers conducted 90-minute interviews with 7,461 people in 4,000 randomly selected British households; the interview included a 20-item questionnaire designed to screen for autism. (Sample yes-or-no questionnaire items: I find it easy to make friends. I would rather go to a party than the library. I particularly enjoy reading fiction.) Based on their answers in the first phase, investigators further assessed 618 individuals, using a battery of psychiatric measures, including a state-of-the art autism diagnostic tool. (About 200 of these...
...taken so long to do a study of this sort? For one thing, you need an enormous sample size - at an enormous cost - to find significant numbers of people with autism. Second, it's more difficult to detect autism in adults than in children. Children often have glaring symptoms, like delays in learning to speak, extreme social withdrawal and terrible tantrums. Less is known about how autism looks in adults. "To diagnose autism, you need to have good information on people's behavior," says Brugha. "It's much more straightforward to get that with children because you've got parents...
Basically, there is a special club that you—solely by virtue of your soon-to-be-earned Harvard degree—may join some day, when you inevitably find yourself alone and unloved in Manhattan a few years down the road. It’s called the Ivy Plus Society (the “Plus” is for schools that aren’t officially Ivies but are also kind of cool… you know, like Stanford or something). If you’re looking for that rare someone who’s as smart, good...
...It’s the episode Gleeks everywhere have been waiting for: Kristin Chenoweth guest stars on Glee. Find out what’s going on at McKinley High after the jump (spoilers ahead...
Sue’s barely in this episode. We’re sure she’s busy cooking something devilish up – can’t wait to find out what. Best Only line of the week: “I was aroused, then furious...